Mastodon.com Is Not the Home of the Mastodon Social Network

I inadvertently went there a few days ago instead of going to our Mastodon host, liberdon.com, and realized that the site is all about this:

Awesome, especially starting at about 1:25.

Comments

[Mr. Bumble]

Oh the things that you'll see on Mastodon Street.

[Jonathan Affleck]

Liberdon/Mastodon seems to work fine.

I am getting notifications of new Volokh Conspiracy articles.

There service still seems like a Usenet upgrade that has a spiffier interface,

[Absaroka]

I think I'm in love...

(We used to have The Hedge From Heck ... days of fun pruning and chipping every year)

[TangoDelta]

I've got a 35 year old deck that really needs to be completely redone. With one of these and I could start from scratch in no time.

[Dr. Ed 2]

One word: Nails.

What do you think would happen to them?

And if the wood is rotted, they'd come flying out with lethal velocity. They wouldn't be a balanced spinning round like a bullet, but at close range, i.e. 100 feet or so, they'd be quite lethal. And as they were tumbling already, they'd likely do the incredible damage of a tumbling unbalanced round upon impact.

YOU can do this -- but not near me, please!

[Davedave]

The talking horse imagines more nonsense, shocka!

[Mr. Bumble]

California and several other western states could use a fleet of these monsters to clear the dead material from their forests which feed wild fires. Of course they are probably awaiting the electric version.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Maybe California, but definitely not Maine! Way too many rocks!

I know what rocks do to a chipper, and that's just pebbles in the bark of the tree-length logs being chipped. It's so destructive that I've seen biomass plants refuse to accept logs from certain venues.

And in Maine, a growing tree almost inevitably pushes up a rock or two as it squeezes the ground as it grows. That's a real issue with stump grinding, you HAVE TO dig around the stump and remove the rocks.

This toy would last me about 5 minutes in the field -- snow blowers have shear pins, I don't think that this does. And even with shear pins, I can tell you what picking up a softball-sized rock does to the augurs. Now if they were sharpened blades....

[Mr. Bumble]

Watch this video from link provided by princess jasmine below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYKg0gbRFns

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

I had a field of manzanita to clear, and that's slow work and leaves a lot of manzanita behind. Sierra Pacific owns a lot of land around here and had hired a masticator (like a six foot diameter lawn mower on reads) to clear the stubble after clear cutting trees so they could plant the next crop. I talked them into masticating my mazanita as a side job since they were only 5 minutes away, they cleared the 200x200 foot patch in under an hour including travel both ways, leaving the stumps about six inches high so as to not be hidden. And leaving the chips in place meant they didn't need to be hauled away or burnt in the winter.

This beast looks like it would be even faster.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

How interesting! I'm going to have to experiment and see if I can recreate this post and post+ situation.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Ah, got it. I added the first comment, then hit back arrow to both refresh the page and get the general comments URL instead of the specific comment URL, got distracted, saw the "unfinished" comment in the text box, added to it, clicked SUBMIT. Not a site bug, just operator error. The fix is to either not do that back arrow bit, or to clear the text box after doing so, or hit ^R to reload after doing so.

[Dr. Ed 2]

I'd use the machine that highway and railroad crews use -- giant rotary lawn mower blades on hydraulic arms. They are scary looking but relatively safe -- at least I haven't heard of a lot of accidents with them.

The Maine DOT uses them to clear brush off the side of rural highways, but if you promise to maintain the berm (lawn) in front of your house, they won't do this or spray defoliants -- and they give you a "no spray" sign to post on the border.

Well the operator wasn't paying attention one day and took off both the sign and the 2x4 that it was mounted on. My friend's dad, an O-6, wasn't happy and had a chat with the DOT crew.The big issue is if you can't burn brush -- then you get brush piles which are great for housing small animals, but also starting forest fires.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

I had a field of manzanita to clear, and that's slow work and leaves a lot of manzanita behind. Sierra Pacific owns a lot of land around here and had hired a masticator (like a six foot diameter lawn mower on reads) to clear the stubble after clear cutting trees so they could plant the next crop. I talked them into masticating my mazanita as a side job since they were only 5 minutes away, they cleared the 200x200 foot patch in under an hour including travel both ways, leaving the stumps about six inches high so as to not be hidden. And leaving the chips in place meant they didn't need to be hauled away or burnt in the winter.

This beast looks like it would be even faster, and the way it digs down into the dirt, it might not have to leave the visible stumps which eventually regrow.

(Manzanita is a shrub, maybe 10 feet high at most, I like the looks of it, a lot of people like to make Christmas decorations out of it. But it feels oily to the touch, is a real dense hardwood, and not what you want downhill from your house in a fire.)

[princess jasmine]

several years ago, irl, I saw a crane-sized hoisted chipper pulverize a full size tree, in place, from top to bottom

[princess jasmine]

It was something like this, but much bigger. I was just driving along, and wanted to look away, but I could not.
https://www.lecinfo.com/products/mongo-flail-mulcher/

[Dr. Ed 2]

This actually exists -- electrical companies use it to clear powerlines.

[great Unknown]

misspelling at 1:57.

[M L]

Personally, I'd prefer the product in the video.

[princess jasmine]

Are you sure about that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYKg0gbRFns

[Mr. Bumble]

Ah. The power of fossil fuels.

[princess jasmine]

the more you know

[Bill Poser]

We linguists have run into this problem. People sometimes try lsa.org to reach the Linguistic Society of America, only to find that it is the web site of the Lousiana Sheriffs Association.

[santamonica811]

That's nothing. Think about what the organization has to face with the North American Marlon Brandon Look-Alikes.

[Hat tip: South Park]

[Currentsitguy]

You ought to see whitehouse.com

[John F. Carr]

The genius of adding new top level domains is you know hundreds of companies like Caterpillar, Mastodon, etc. are likely to pay to register their common words on every one of them.

As for the machine, here is a more powerful tree mangler. "Feller Buncher for Children" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auABpgc_d2Y

[John F. Carr]

That machine reminds me. I have one invasive shrub I want to remove. I could find countless companies willing to clear cut my two acres and lay sod on it. But I don't trust anybody to remove one shrub and roots without making a huge mess, like by driving that machine back and forth. I'll cut off the top and leave the roots for another era.

[Mr. Bumble]

That must be one hell of a "shrub".

[John F. Carr]

It's not that big. Honeysuckle, Lonicera morrowii, around meters in diameter. On one side I have an ornamental grass. On another side, raspberry bushes. Growing through the middle, a birch tree I want to save. Cutting down the top of the shrub takes a small chainsaw, which I have. Digging up the roots is the bigger problem. And not stepping on stuff that a landscaper considers without value because the way they work is destroy everything and rebuild.

[Mr. Bumble]

You can't always get what you want.

Bite the bullet and sacrifice the birch tree. Vines are the worst when it comes to trying to remove them.

[Currentsitguy]

Impress me, do it next to power lines, with a helicopter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz1YrpMbBg

[BadLib]

I was about to post this very link!

In my area they used something like this where the power lines were along the side of a hiking trail for a bit. Unfortunately there was some communication error and the trail wasn't shut down during the operation and some hikers were less than happy as this thing came by (however, the only trauma was emotional as there were no physical injuries).

[Currentsitguy]

I keep thinking this would make short work of the neighbor's houses when I finally decide I really need some peace and quiet.

[princess jasmine]

Or a way for the Russians to dispose of the corpses in Ukraine.

[Currentsitguy]

It seems in Kherson the city dump was good enough.

[princess jasmine]

Indeed, pity the Russian conscript. RIP

[Flight-ER-Doc]

It's a woodchipper. And a Tank!

It's a woodchipper Tank!

And we shall name it....Amnesty Lite!

[princess jasmine]

Just in time for... tanks-giving 🙂

[Shawn Levasseur]

You went on Liberdon for your Mastadon presence? Cool. My account's there too.

(Though it was from an experimentation in the "beforetime" of 2019. I set it up, used a service to repost my tweets as toots, and forgot about it up until a couple of weeks ago.)

[Craig Johnston]

The “Mastodon is better than Twitter” commercial writes itself: just put some “tweet”talk bubbles in the trees.